Some people had a public holiday today. I had Sysadmin Day. Did a few things I don’t usually get time for in the week.
- Gave the office a spring clean
- Switched from Qmail to using Postfix on my workstation, mostly because Qmail has issues with the newer libc6
- Upgraded my workstation to Debian (Etch) 4.0
- Switched from using Webalizer to AWstats for my homepage and blog stats
- Upgraded WordPress to version 2.1.3
- Checked all my web content into SVN neatly
- Cleaned up my X.org config, that’s been a bit messy since I got a new screen and display card
- Made some backups of my Laptop and Mobile phone
“The time has come for everyone to clean up their own backyard.”
— Little Junior Brown, Kiss of Death
Let me see if I can offer some hints to make your life easier:
* Gave the office a spring clean
-> get a robot (or a mavis)
* Switched from Qmail to using Postfix on my workstation, mostly because Qmail has issues with the newer libc6
-> Seriously, get Google Apps for your domain
* Upgraded my workstation to Debian (Etch) 4.0
-> Get Windows. It looks better. And you’ll have more time to play games BESIDES for Quake1.
* Switched from using Webalizer to AWstats for my homepage and blog stats
-> If you had Google Apps, you’d have Google Analytics.
* Upgraded WordPress to version 2.1.3
-> Blogger
* Checked all my web content into SVN neatly
-> you SVN your content??? In case you say something with a bug?
* Cleaned up my X.org config, that’s been a bit messy since I got a new screen and display card
-> Been there, done that, went back to Windows. No messing with xorg.conf just to make it work on 2 screens.
* Made some backups of my Laptop and Mobile phone
-> If only you had it permanently stored online in Google Apps.
Have just downloaded Feisty Fawn. But also just bought Tiberium Wars. I suspect I’m feeling stuck in Windows. The greatest benefit of an earlier (total) switch to Ubuntu was that I started realising the benefits of Google Apps and other web services.
On the other hand I felt I wasted so much time (it was fun in a way, admittedly) trying to solve problems that had been solved already.
If only they could do Tiberium Wars in Flash (oh wait, last I checked Flash for Linux was 2 versions behind!)
Hello Mr. Google Fan Boy
“Did you know you can make money by adding a google search bar to your site?”
Did you know you can make money by performing sexual favours? Do you want to?
I like my privacy. I like running my own MTA. Debian is the one pure OS. I like being able to dig around in the WordPress source. I use SVN for many things.. I like the idea of being able to undo changes. I don’t want Google to have all my personal contact details. I don’t have time for games.. I have 5 jobs.
hehehe,
but OF COURSE you don’t have time for games!